2016年10月14日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Education News

DoED settlement: For-profit school must scale back student success claims

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 01:30 PM PDT

The US Department of Education announced a settlement Thursday with DeVry University, a for-profit institution of higher education, over the school's use of post-graduation employment claims in advertisements to lure new students. DeVry got in trouble with regulators for widely advertising that since 1975, 90 percent of graduates had found a job in their field within six months of graduating. The school was unable to substantiate that claim, the Department of Education concluded, based on materials it requested from DeVry in August 2015.

The Latest: Suspect in crash that killed 5 pleads not guilty

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 08:49 AM PDT

Mourners hold candles Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, during a candlelight vigil attended by abut 1,000 at Harwood Union High School in Duxbury, Vt., for the teenaged victims killed in Saturday night's crash on Interstate 89 in Williston. Four of the five teens killed by the wrong-way driver were students at Harwood. The fifth student killed was from Fayston and attended a private school in New Hampshire. (Stefan Hard/Times Argus via AP)BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The Latest on the Vermont man charged with murder in the wrong-way crash that killed five high school students (all times local):

Education publisher Pearson bets on online degrees

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 06:25 AM PDT

Pearson Global Product President, Tim Bozik, poses for a portrait at their offices in LondonHilton, a 24-year-old with a full-time job in advertising, is part of the first intake at King's College London to study a fully online course to enable her to work in mental health. The scheme is produced by Pearson, the world's largest education publisher, which is looking to online higher education courses to help revive its fortunes after a downturn in its traditional textbooks and marking businesses. If the model succeeds, with Pearson handling the marketing, recruitment and design of online courses, it could help open up higher education by providing fresh impetus to distance learning and also save money for cash-strapped universities.

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